Quotes About Inspiration

Oh my God, I love 'Bake Off!' I absolutely love it. It's amazing.

I'm a Lizzo fan these days. Oh my god. I mean, I wish she'd been around when I was young.

Dave Chappelle

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

I go back to Francis Schmidt. Francis Schmidt was the Ohio State coach who hired me.

Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She's like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a social-impact story.

I am a girl from Cleveland, Ohio, that never thought she would be in Hollywood!

I hope we win a lot of games, that's part of the job at Ohio State. But you want to have a bigger impact than that when you're done. You want to leave a legacy behind, you want to make change.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You are just drawn to things, and that's OK.

I love that I can demonstrate that it's OK to look and be strong.

Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

You are OK however you are, and you are very beautiful.

When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can write, or what is Harvey Weinstein going to want to buy?' Or even, 'What are filmgoers going to want.' I try to think, tell a good story. Just do what you do.

If you knew what you wanted to be when you were 6 years old - great! If you have no idea what you want to be, that's OK!

Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.